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Call for Papers: Europe's Crisis: The Conflict-Theoretic Perspective

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Europe's Crisis: The Conflict-Theoretic Perspective


Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Freiburg, Germany

 

September 25-26, 2014

 

Organization:

Diana Panke / Tim Krieger / Bernhard Neumärker
(Department of Political Science and Department of Economics, University of Freiburg)

in cooperation with:

Laurent Goetschel (University of Basel and swisspeace)

 

The destruction of the European continent during World Wars I and II led Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet and others to work towards the creation of the European Communities (EC) as an umbrella under which the former enemies could cooperate. This prevented a possible re-emergence of extreme nationalism and brought about long-lasting peace amongst the EC members. Ever since that time larger and smaller steps of European integration and enlargement have been conducted successfully, leading to the European Union we know today.

However, the recent financial and political crisis has challenged European integration in an unprecedented way. Important steps of integration such as the introduction of the Euro as the common currency or the removal of border controls in the Schengen area have been called into question by several citizens, politicians and scholars. Populist anti-EU parties celebrate successes in national elections, while the EU and other international organizations, most notably the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have been criticised as being invasive or even imperialistic. Within the current context of crisis management achieving social goals, such as the adaptation of living standards in the EU, appears to be postponed. Also, the divide between deteriorating and prosperous economies seems to increase the conflict potential between (groups of) EC member states. Moreover, the crisis triggered unpopular, far-reaching fiscal, economic, social and political reforms in several EU member states, leading to serious internal strains, even including the rise of extremist actions such as terrorist attacks.

This interdisciplinary workshop aims at exploring the current crisis in Europe from a conflict-theoretic perspective in order to gain a deeper understanding of political, social and economic conflicts and their dynamics within and between EU member states. We invite social scientists from economics and political science as well from neighbouring disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, law, philosophy etc.) to analyse the European crisis by emphasizing its conflict potential, conflict dynamics and attempts of crisis management and conflict resolution. Contributions may relate to a variety of scientific approaches including (but not limited to) the economics of conflict, public choice analysis, institutionalist approaches, or constitutional economics.

 

Keynote speakers: Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich) and Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz).

Authors of accepted contributions are invited to submit their papers (subject to the usual reviewing process) to a special issue of the Review of International Organizations.

Please send the title and an abstract of about one page length by April 20th, 2014, to the organizers (EU_crisis@vwl.uni-freiburg.de). Participants will be informed about the acceptance of their papers by May 9th, 2014. For more information, please visit www.wipo.uni-freiburg.de/conferences/eu-crisis.

 

Download the announcement as .pdf file here.

 

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